Local Influencer’s Fountaingrove Home for Sale Is an Instagrammable Space for Entertaining
Want to live like an influencer? A four-bedroom, three-bathroom Fountaingrove estate listed for sale may be the perfect opportunity. Built in 2020, the Santa Rosa home of local lifestyle influencer Erika Altes and her husband, real estate agent Mark Altes, is currently on the market for $1,549,000. The 176,000 Instagra
A Night in Tuscany: North Bay Children’s Center Hosts 37th Annual Fundraiser
On September 19, 350 guests brought the Gambonini Family Ranch in Petaluma to life for North Bay Children’s Center’s (NBCC) 37th annual A Night in Tuscany fundraiser. This year’s event raised a particularly ground-breaking $445,000, which will support NBCC’s ability to continue providing early childhood education, nutr
Sonoma County Supervisors Routinely Delete Texts, Transparency Lawyers Cry Foul
Sonoma County supervisors are deleting their text messages on wildly different timelines — some weekly, some annually, one almost as soon as the next day arrives — and when a reporter went looking for texts tied to a July 2025 county meeting, officials said none could be found. The gap has transparency advocates warnin
Santa Rosa: Man Arrested After Allegedly Setting Grass Fire Near Middle School
Police arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of setting a grass fire near a Santa Rosa middle school on Sunday night. The fire was discovered after officers were called about 8:05 p.m. to the 1100 block of Fenway Drive to a report that someone was knocking on a resident's front door.
Near-record high temps this week under California heat wave
Summer, it seems, is still with us. It’s not all that uncommon to see October high temperatures across the Central Valley in the 90s — any warmer than average pattern will do that. What is less common is just how much hotter these temperatures are and how long they have been sticking around. After rising into the 90s l
Virus that can cause rare polio-like illness rising in Northern California
Enterovirus D68 is circulating in the Bay Area yet again.
Marin Voice: We Can No Longer Afford to Find Reasons to Delay Housing
For more than a decade, a 127-acre hilltop former seminary campus in the Strawberry area near Mill Valley has been the star of an ongoing redevelopment fight. In 2015, the land was proposed as a new campus for The Branson School, where I am a student in my senior year. After two years of review, the proposal was eventu
Decades after the Mondavis lost their California wine empire, their comeback winery is ready...
Napa’s new Estate House is the capstone on the Mondavi family’s more than two decades of building a new wine legacy at Continuum Estate.
Public safety labor groups plan to continue push for pension enhancements after Gov. Newsom...
As local governments in California breathe a sigh of relief following the governor’s veto of a bill that would have enhanced retirement benefits for police and firefighters — potentially raising annual taxpayer pension costs by millions of dollars — labor groups are taking stock of their loss and preparing to mount a n
Designing A Vacancy Tax for Sonoma – Part Two
If the City of Sonoma instituted a vacancy tax, it could do three things: motivate owners of long‑term vacant homes to put them back into use; generate revenue for essential city services; and – most importantly – restore the year‑round civic participation that keeps neighborhoods strong by bringing people back into th

















